With populism rising and an aspiring autocrat occupying the White House, threats to democracy proliferate: rampant corruption, assaults on the rule of law, sabotage of the administrative state, a politicized Justice Department waging a protracted campaign of political retribution, a cowed Congress that struggles to legislate and oversee, and a president who governs nearly exclusively through unilateral action. These are not ordinary times, and champions of democracy quite rightly look for ways to resist and obstruct strongman power.
Many such checks can be found within the government’s constitutional design—in its separation of powers and the distributed authority that makes it difficult
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